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Civil Hospital mum over Covid discharge, death figures

AHMEDABAD: The Civil Hospital has remained silent on the aspect of discharges of Covid-19 patients and deaths that occurred since January 2021, when an RTI query sought details on corona patients.
The public information officer and medical record officer of the Civil Hospital, Asarwa was to provide the information on how many Covid-19 patients were admitted and discharged since March 2020, when the first patient was admitted in the hospital in Gujarat.
In May, a consumer rights activist Suchitra Paul had filed a an application under the provisions of Right to Information Act and sought details about Covid patients in three parts.
Paul had sought to know how many Covid-19 patients were admitted between March and December 2020 and what was the figure of admissions since January 2021.
She had also questioned about the number of discharges that took place since March 2020 and how many deaths took place.
In reply, the PIO replied that there were 20,273 patients admitted in the Civil Hospital for Covid-19 treatment between March and December 2020.
There were 10,404 Covid patients who were admitted for treatment between January and April 2021.
But the PIL did not disclose the figures of the patients discharged and of those who died during treatment.
Instead, the reply reads, “No other information is required to be parted with.” The applicant said that she planned to file an appeal against non-disclosure of figures of discharges and deaths.
Two weeks ago, the Institute of Kidney Diseases & Research Centre (IKDRC), located in the Civil Hospital campus, supplied information to an RTI query on admission, discharge and death of patients in three different time periods.
The details furnished were curious as it said that IKDRC has cured more patients than those admitted in the centre for treatment.

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